We gave up a convenient US Post Office for this?! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here is the site of the former Arlington Road post office in downtown Bethesda.
There's no tower crane yet, but there is a lot of mud, junk and... possibly the least profitable Pepsi vending machine location in America.
This is the Pepsi Generation in MoCo: developers and politicians laughing all the way to the bank, while taxpayers are walking all the way to the poorly chosen new post office site.
The post office closure decision joins New Coke, the new MySpace and the Microsoft Zune in the "What were they thinking?" file.
USPS real estate guy at public meeting: "Uh, we need surface parking, and loading docks, and room to turn 18-wheelers around."
You just described the facility you just tore down! This is sheer lunacy.
